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本篇收錄2019年暑期課程的影片記錄，共八段
Course 1: Main issues and problems of pollution and resource depletion (part 1)
2019 Summer School on "Environmental Footprints"
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/15 Morning
Opening Speech:
Daigee Shaw, President of TAERE
Kamhon Kan, Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 Opening
07:46 Course outline
18:26 Introduction – main issues and problems of pollution and resource depletion
Course 2: Main issues and problems of pollution and resource depletion (part 2)
2019 Summer School on "Environmental Footprints"
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/15 Morning
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
Course 3: Environmental impacts, interactions, foundations of circular economy (part 1)
2019 Summer School on "Environmental Footprints"
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/15 Afternoon
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 Natural resources and their natural storages – circularity of extraction, use and discharge
28:55 Circular Economy principles and strategy
Course 4: Environmental impacts, interactions, foundations of circular economy (part 2)
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/15 Afternoon
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 Global energy and (virtual) water flows – the scale of the flows and the problems
38:39 Sustainability – definition, components and metrics
1:00:10 Life Cycle thinking and the LCA framework
Course 5: Environmental Footprints – Introduction, definitions, implementation
2019 Summer School on "Environmental Footprints"
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/16 Morning
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 The Environmental Performance Strategy Map
22:25 Direct, indirect and total effects
35:52 General footprint principles and concepts
1:10:04 GHG (Carbon) footprint
1:18:52 Water footprint
Course 6:Environmental Footprints – Introduction, definitions, implementation
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/16 Morning
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 Water footprint
12:07 Energy footprint
48:05 Nitrogen footprint
Course 7: Environmental Footprints & GHG/Haze Footprint Minimization
2019 Summer School on "Environmental Footprints"
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/16 Afternoon
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 Other footprints
23:14 Virtual footprints
1:19:07 GHG and Haze Footprint Minimisation
Course 8: Introduction to Heat Integration and Pinch Analysis
Organizer: Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE)
Date: 2019/7/16 Afternoon
Lecturers:
Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Video Timeline:
00:00 Introduction to Heat Integration and Pinch Analysis
《TAERE 2019: Records of Summer School》
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July 15-16, 2019
Organizers:
- Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
- Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
- Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University
- College of Management, National Chiao Tung University
- School of Forestry and Resources Conservation, National Taiwan University
- Taiwan Association for Low Carbon Society an Economy
Venue: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: June 30, 2019
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Professor Petar Sabev Varbanov
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Abstract
The course offers an overview of the modern metrics of environmental impact, called "Environmental Footprints," and the methods for their reduction and achieving sustainability. Environmental Footprint assessment tools are very useful for optimising the performance of industrial and business processes. Often they are also referred to as "Ecological Footprints."
The course has several major parts:
Part 1. Introduction to environmental impacts and interactions, foundations of Circular Economy
This part introduces the topics, starting from a discussion of the main issues and problems of environmental pollution and depletion of natural resources from their natural storages. The emphasis is put on the need for circularity of the resource use and product/by-product reuse, and implementing the Circular Economy principles and strategy, to minimise resource extraction and waste discharge.
Definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are given. The Life Cycle thinking and the fundamentals of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) are introduced, distinguishing between direct, indirect and total effects. The part includes the Environmental Performance Strategy Map – a concept that allows visualising and simultaneously optimising the environmental and economic performance indicators of human activities – an industrial site or other business activities.
The part concludes with the main principles and indicators important for measuring environmental impacts.
Part 2. Environmental Footprints – Introduction, definitions, implementation
This part introduces in more detail the key footprints, important for evaluating and altering the performance of industrial, business and societal systems in terms of environmental impacts and sustainability. The indicators include those for Greenhouse Gas (GHG), Water Footprint, Nitrogen Footprint, and others. The part concludes with presenting the possible measures and degrees of freedom to reduce footprints.
Within that context, the global energy and water flows are overviewed, including the flows of Virtual Water and Virtual GHG Footprints.
Part 3. Methods for Energy Saving and GHG and Haze Footprint Minimisation
This part starts by discussing case studies that provide examples of the benefits from concerted strategies for Energy Saving and further measures for GHG/Haze Footprint minimisation. The Process Integration principle is explained, clearly showing its coherence with the resource/waste hierarchy and the use of renewables as a footprint reduction tool. That is followed by the concepts, principles, and methods of Heat Integration and Pinch Analysis, for the simultaneous reduction of footprints and resource intake. The techniques include Data Extraction, Heat Recovery Targeting, Design of Heat Exchanger Networks, integration of energy-intensive processes, Total Site Heat Integration, Advanced Process Integration Techniques and energy storage methods, for improving the energy savings.
Part 4. Reduction of Water Footprint, Water-Energy-GHG Nexus
This part provides an introduction to Water Integration and nexus considerations. It starts with Data Extraction concerning water use, Water Network Design, discussion of water quality issues and implications, Water Pinch Analysis, water system analysis, Maximum Water Recovery Targets, design of Water Reuse Networks. Further techniques are discussed – the "Source/Sink Composite Curves" method for water targeting, the significance of the Water Pinch, Cost-Effective Minimum Water Networks – design and retrofit.
Further, the Water-Energy Nexus for industrial sites is considered, giving a case study for using the Nexus as a synergy mechanism for energy and water demand reduction.
Recommended literature
- Klemes, J. J. (Ed.). (2015). Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability. Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Klemeš, J. J., Varbanov, P. S., Alwi, S. R. W., & Manan, Z. A. (2018). Sustainable Process Integration and Intensification: Saving Energy, Water and Resources. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
Participation fee
The fee covers lecturer expenses, downloadable course material, morning and afternoon teas, and two lunches and one dinner included in the School programme. It does not cover accommodations.
- TAERE members: Free of charge (to become a member)
- Non-members: The participation fee is 100 USD (or 3,000 TWD) per person for non-members.
Course outline. Here
Summer School Program. Here
Information on how to apply are available on the Summer School website.
Chinese website. Here
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課程日期：2019年7月15日至16日
主辦單位:
台灣環境與資源經濟學會
中央研究院經濟研究所
國立台北大學全球變遷與永續科學研究中心
國立交通大學管理學院
國立臺灣大學森林環境暨資源學系
台灣低碳社會與綠色經濟推廣協會
地點：中央研究院經濟研究所（臺北市南港區研究院路二段128號）
報名截止日期：2019年6月30日
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摘要
本課程概述環境衝擊的現代指標──「環境足跡」（Environmental Footprints），以及減少足跡和實現永續的方法，環境足跡評估工具可以用於設計與規劃工業和商業流程，使之達到最適狀態。環境足跡也常被稱為「生態足跡」（Ecological Footprints）。
本課程包括四個部分：
Part 1. 簡介環境衝擊和互動關係，以及循環經濟原理
本部分將介紹以下主題，並從環境污染以及自然資源耗竭主要議題和問題開始討論。重點會放在為了減少資源開採和廢棄物排放，資源循環利用和產品/副產品的再利用，以及循環經濟原則和策略的執行。
本部分亦會談到永續性和永續發展的定義，並介紹生命週期思維和生命週期分析（LCA）的基本原理，以區分直接影響、間接影響和總體影響。此部分包括環境表現策略地圖 – 這是一個允許視覺化並同時最適化人類活動的環境和經濟績效指標的概念，人類活動包括工業及商業活動。
本部分將總結衡量環境衝擊的重要原則和指標。
Part 2. 環境足跡：介紹、定義與執行
本部分將更詳細地介紹關鍵的環境足跡（key footprints），這些關鍵足跡對於評估和改變工業、商業和社會系統在環境影響和永續方面的表現非常重要，這些指標包括溫室氣體（GHG）、水足跡、氮足跡、及其他。此部分將總結減少足跡的可能措施及其自由度。
在此內容，本部分將概述全球能源和水流量，包括（從消費面衡量的、國際貿易商品內含的）虛擬水足跡和虛擬溫室氣體足跡（Virtual Water and Virtual GHG Footprints）的流量。
Part 3. 節能與最小化溫室氣體及霧霾足跡的方法
本部分將以案例討論開始，這些案例將說明節能的一致性策略及最小化溫室氣體/霧霾足跡之工具的效益。本部分將解釋流程整合原則，清楚地顯示資源/廢棄物的層級性以及再生能源作為減少環境足跡之工具是協調一致的。接下來是同時減少足跡和資源使用的熱整合（Heat Integration）和夾點分析（Pinch Analysis）的概念、原理和方法，這些技術包括數據萃取（Data Extraction）、熱回收標的（Heat Recovery Targeting）、熱交流網路之設計（Design of Heat Exchange Networks）、耗能流程的整合（Integration of energy-intensive processes）、熱整合（Total Site Heat Integration）、高階流程整合技術（Advanced Process Integration Techniques） 和能量存儲方法，以提高節能效果。
Part 4. 水足跡的減少：水－能源－溫室氣體的關係
本部分將介紹水資源整合和相關的考慮因素。首先是關於用水的數據萃取（Data Extraction）、水資源網路設計、水質問題和影響的討論、水夾點分析（Water Pinch Analysis）、水資源系統分析、最大可能的水資源回收標的、水再利用網絡的設計。本部分將進一步討論以下技術：用於「節水標的」的Source/Sink Composite Curves方法、Water Pinch的重要性、成本有效的最小水資源網路（Cost Effective Minimum Water Networks）。
此外，本部分將考慮工業區的水與能源關係，提供以此關係作為節能/節水協調機制的案例研究。
推薦文獻
- Klemes, J. J. (Ed.). (2015). Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability. Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Klemeš, J. J., Varbanov, P. S., Alwi, S. R. W., & Manan, Z. A. (2018). Sustainable Process Integration and Intensification: Saving Energy, Water and Resources. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
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Behavioral Environmental Economics Summer School
August 30-31, 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University
Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: August 15, 2018
The Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE) and the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica and the Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University and Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan are pleased to announce the first TAERE Summer School in Environmental and Resource Economics for students, researchers and professionals.
The School will take place from August 30 to 31 at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. The main theme covered by the 2018 Summer School is Behavioral Environmental Economics.
Normative environmental analyses based on the efficiency and cost-benefit criterion at times implied unambiguous policy treatments of environmental problems. However, standard policy instruments such as the Pigovian tax recommended by the environmental and public economists were often unpopular. Aggressive policy actions against climate change also often met with a cold acceptance. Citizens’ assessment of the riskiness of many environmental issues also diverged from many “objective” risk measures for them. While some of these divergences could be explained by the disparity between the individual interest and the collective social interest, or by concerns about the potential re-distributional effects of some “efficient” policies, modern behavioral economics has found abundant evidence that individuals’ preferences may not be so narrowly defined as in the standard economic theory. And these findings about human nature could have profound implications on the design of environmental policies. The aim of TAERE 2018 Summer School is to provide participants with a comprehensive picture of behavioral economics applied to the environmental issues and the basic toolkit required to conduct relevant researches. Therefore, the topics of the 2018 Summer School include:
- Behavioral economics and the environmental issues: Overview of the current and potential role of behavioral findings in environmental economics and policy, with specific reference to the incompatibility between the predictions of the standard economic theory and observed behaviors (e.g., sunk cost fallacy, status quo bias, anchoring, fungibility and mental accounting).
- Reference dependent preferences: Environmental valuations and the empirical evidence of “nonstandard” preferences (e.g., reference dependent preferences like loss aversion and the observed disparities between valuations of gains and losses; disparities between the Willingness-to-Pay and the Willingness-to-Accept). Policy implications will be discussed.
- Intertemporal choice in the perspectives from the behavioral theories: Intertemporal preferences and discounting values of future outcomes (e.g., exponential and hyperbolic discounting; present bias and commitment devices; reference dependence and discounting of future gains and future losses).
- Fairness and social preferences: E.g., altruism, trust and reciprocity, and social norms; empirical findings and policy implications.
- “Where are we going?”: Potential role and limitations of behavioral findings and policy design; possible future priorities/directions for environmental behavioral economics.
The course will be presented in lectures supplemented by small group exercises on chosen topics.
INSTRUCTORS
Jack L. Knetsch, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Y. Eko Riyanto, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
PARTICIPATION FEE
The fee covers lecturer expenses, downloadable course material, morning and afternoon teas, and two lunches and one dinner included in the School programme. It does not cover accommodations.
- TAERE members: Free of charge (to become a member)
- Non-members: The participation fee is 100 USD (or 3,000 TWD) per person for non-members.
ADMISSION
The Summer School aims at graduate students, postdocs, academic and policy researchers, and professionals from all levels with an interest in behavioral economics and environmental economics.
Summer School Program. Here
Reading list. Here
This summer school will issue a certificate of attendance to a registered participant who attends all courses.
Information on how to apply are available on the Summer School website.
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主辦單位 Organizers：
台灣環境與資源經濟學會
Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
中央研究院經濟研究所
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
國立臺北大學全球變遷與永續科學研究中心
Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University
行政院原子能委員會核能研究所
Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
課程日期 Date：
2018年8月30日至31日（August 30-31, 2018）
地點 Place：
中央研究院經濟研究所，台北市南港區研究院路二段128號
Institute of Economics, Acdemia Sinica
台灣環境與資源經濟學會、中央研究院經濟研究所、國立臺北大學全球變遷與用續科學研究中心和行政院原子能委員會核能研究所將在2018年暑期提供「行為環境經濟學」的課程，適合對行為經濟學及環境與資源經濟學有興趣的學生、研究人員和專業人士。
課程內容：
環境經濟學的規範性分析通常對環境問題提出以經濟效率和本益分析為規範標準的政策方案。但事實上，環境經濟學家所推薦的標準政策工具，例如污染稅、碳稅、能源稅，常常不受大眾歡迎；積極對抗全球暖化的排碳管制方案也常受冷遇；一般人對許多環境風險的評估也常和「客觀的」風險指標有所差距。這些分歧雖然一部分可由個人利益與社會集體利益之間的不一致來解釋，或是部分歸因於社會大眾對「效率性」政策之所得重分配效果的憂慮，但現代行為經濟學已提出大量的證據，顯示個人的偏好可能不像標準經濟理論所定義的那般狹隘。而這些關於人性的新發現和新理解，可能對環境政策的設計產生深刻的影響。因此，台灣環境與資源經濟學會和中央研究院經濟研究所舉辦2018年的暑期課程「行為環境經濟學」，其目標是，為參與者提供行為經濟學的全面性概覽及其在環境課題方面的應用。
2018年暑期課程的主題包括：
- 行為經濟學和環境課題的關係概覽：行為經濟學在環境課題與環境政策方面的應用，特別是觀察到的行為和標準經濟理論之間的不相容性。例如，看重「沉沒成本」的謬誤（sunk cost fallacy），偏愛現狀的傾向（status quo bias），起始訊息的錨定效應（anchoring），可替代性和心理帳戶（fungibility and mental accounting）。
- 仰賴參考架構的偏好型態：「非標準型偏好」的證據與「非標準型偏好」對環境評價的影響。例如，損失規避的傾向（loss aversion），「最高願付價值」（Willingness-to-Pay）和「最低報償要求」（Willingness-to-Accept）之間的差距。並討論這類偏好型態的政策含義。
- 從行為理論來看跨期選擇：例如，指數折現和雙曲折現（exponential and hyperbolic discounting），偏好當下的傾向（present bias）和承諾機制（commitment devices），參考架構的依賴與折現問題。
- 公平意識和社會偏好：例如，利他行為，信賴與互惠，社會文化規範，以及有關這些問題的實證發現和政策含義。
- 未來的可能發展：行為觀察證據的潛在角色和局限性；政策設計課題；行為環境經濟學的未來可能研究重點和方向。
The Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE) and the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica and the Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University and Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan are pleased to announce the first TAERE Summer School in Environmental and Resource Economics for students, researchers and professionals.
The School will take place from August 30 to 31 at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. The main theme covered by the 2018 Summer School is Behavioral Environmental Economics.
Normative environmental analyses based on the efficiency and cost-benefit criterion at times implied unambiguous policy treatments of environmental problems. However, standard policy instruments such as the Pigovian tax recommended by the environmental and public economists were often unpopular. Aggressive policy actions against climate change also often met with a cold acceptance. Citizens’ assessment of the riskiness of many environmental issues also diverged from many “objective” risk measures for them. While some of these divergences could be explained by the disparity between the individual interest and the collective social interest, or by concerns about the potential re-distributional effects of some “efficient” policies, modern behavioral economics has found abundant evidence that individuals’ preferences may not be so narrowly defined as in the standard economic theory. And these findings about human nature could have profound implications on the design of environmental policies. The aim of TAERE 2018 Summer School is to provide participants with a comprehensive picture of behavioral economics applied to the environmental issues and the basic toolkit required to conduct relevant researches. Therefore, the topics of the 2018 Summer School include:
- Behavioral economics and the environmental issues: Overview of the current and potential role of behavioral findings in environmental economics and policy, with specific reference to the incompatibility between the predictions of the standard economic theory and observed behaviors (e.g., sunk cost fallacy, status quo bias, anchoring, fungibility and mental accounting).
- Reference dependent preferences: Environmental valuations and the empirical evidence of “nonstandard” preferences (e.g., reference dependent preferences like loss aversion and the observed disparities between valuations of gains and losses; disparities between the Willingness-to-Pay and the Willingness-to-Accept). Policy implications will be discussed.
- Intertemporal choice in the perspectives from the behavioral theories: Intertemporal preferences and discounting values of future outcomes (e.g., exponential and hyperbolic discounting; present bias and commitment devices; reference dependence and discounting of future gains and future losses).
- Fairness and social preferences: E.g., altruism, trust and reciprocity, and social norms; empirical findings and policy implications.
- “Where are we going?”: Potential role and limitations of behavioral findings and policy design; possible future priorities/directions for environmental behavioral economics.
講師 Instructors：
Jack L. Knetsch教授，加拿大Simon Fraser大學
Y. Eko Riyanto教授，新加坡南洋理工大學
議程暨影片 Program and Video Review：
| 08月30日（星期四）/ August 30, 2018 | |
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| 08:30~08:50 | 報到 Registration |
| 08:50~09:00 |
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| 09:00~12:30 |
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| 12:30~14:00 | Lunch & Discussion |
| 14:00~17:30 |
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| 08月31日（星期五）/ August 31, 2018 | |
| 08:40~09:00 | 報到 Registration |
| 09:00~12:30 |
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| 12:30~14:00 | Lunch & Discussion |
| 14:00~17:30 |
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- 詳細內容
- 分類：活動訊息
July 15-16, 2019
Organizers:
- Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
- Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
- Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University
- College of Management, National Chiao Tung University
- School of Forestry and Resources Conservation, National Taiwan University
- Taiwan Association for Low Carbon Society an Economy
Venue: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: June 30, 2019
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Professor Petar Sabev Varbanov
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Abstract
The course offers an overview of the modern metrics of environmental impact, called "Environmental Footprints," and the methods for their reduction and achieving sustainability. Environmental Footprint assessment tools are very useful for optimising the performance of industrial and business processes. Often they are also referred to as "Ecological Footprints."
The course has several major parts:
Part 1. Introduction to environmental impacts and interactions, foundations of Circular Economy
This part introduces the topics, starting from a discussion of the main issues and problems of environmental pollution and depletion of natural resources from their natural storages. The emphasis is put on the need for circularity of the resource use and product/by-product reuse, and implementing the Circular Economy principles and strategy, to minimise resource extraction and waste discharge.
Definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are given. The Life Cycle thinking and the fundamentals of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) are introduced, distinguishing between direct, indirect and total effects. The part includes the Environmental Performance Strategy Map – a concept that allows visualising and simultaneously optimising the environmental and economic performance indicators of human activities – an industrial site or other business activities.
The part concludes with the main principles and indicators important for measuring environmental impacts.
Part 2. Environmental Footprints – Introduction, definitions, implementation
This part introduces in more detail the key footprints, important for evaluating and altering the performance of industrial, business and societal systems in terms of environmental impacts and sustainability. The indicators include those for Greenhouse Gas (GHG), Water Footprint, Nitrogen Footprint, and others. The part concludes with presenting the possible measures and degrees of freedom to reduce footprints.
Within that context, the global energy and water flows are overviewed, including the flows of Virtual Water and Virtual GHG Footprints.
Part 3. Methods for Energy Saving and GHG and Haze Footprint Minimisation
This part starts by discussing case studies that provide examples of the benefits from concerted strategies for Energy Saving and further measures for GHG/Haze Footprint minimisation. The Process Integration principle is explained, clearly showing its coherence with the resource/waste hierarchy and the use of renewables as a footprint reduction tool. That is followed by the concepts, principles, and methods of Heat Integration and Pinch Analysis, for the simultaneous reduction of footprints and resource intake. The techniques include Data Extraction, Heat Recovery Targeting, Design of Heat Exchanger Networks, integration of energy-intensive processes, Total Site Heat Integration, Advanced Process Integration Techniques and energy storage methods, for improving the energy savings.
Part 4. Reduction of Water Footprint, Water-Energy-GHG Nexus
This part provides an introduction to Water Integration and nexus considerations. It starts with Data Extraction concerning water use, Water Network Design, discussion of water quality issues and implications, Water Pinch Analysis, water system analysis, Maximum Water Recovery Targets, design of Water Reuse Networks. Further techniques are discussed – the "Source/Sink Composite Curves" method for water targeting, the significance of the Water Pinch, Cost-Effective Minimum Water Networks – design and retrofit.
Further, the Water-Energy Nexus for industrial sites is considered, giving a case study for using the Nexus as a synergy mechanism for energy and water demand reduction.
Recommended literature
- Klemes, J. J. (Ed.). (2015). Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability. Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Klemeš, J. J., Varbanov, P. S., Alwi, S. R. W., & Manan, Z. A. (2018). Sustainable Process Integration and Intensification: Saving Energy, Water and Resources. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
Participation fee
The fee covers lecturer expenses, downloadable course material, morning and afternoon teas, and two lunches and one dinner included in the School programme. It does not cover accommodations.
- TAERE members: Free of charge (to become a member)
- Non-members: The participation fee is 100 USD (or 3,000 TWD) per person for non-members.
Course outline. Here
Summer School Program. Here
Information on how to apply are available on the Summer School website.
Chinese website. Here
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